An intelligent emergency response system: Preliminary development and testing of automated fall detection

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 194-198

  Lee, Tracy ^a   Mihailidis, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITOR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; EMERGENCY; FALLING; HOME; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; SIMULATION; TELEVISION CAMERA;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, HOME; AGED; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 20544441782     PISSN: 1357633X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/1357633054068946     Document Type: Article

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